# pecten
## English
### Etymology

From Latin pecten (“comb”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛktɪn/, /ˈpɛktən/
* Rhymes: -ɛktɪn, -ɛktən

### Noun

pecten (plural pectens or pectines)
* (anatomy, obsolete) The bones in the hand between the wrist and the fingers. [15th–16th c.]
* (anatomy) The pubic bone.
* (anatomy) A comb structure.
* (zoology) One of the genus Pecten of scallops.

### Further reading

* pecten on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* pecten (bivalve) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* pecten (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* pecten on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

## French
### Noun

pecten m (plural pectens)
* pecten (scallop)

### Further reading

* “pecten”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pekten, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱten-s, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“pluck”) (whence pecto). Cognate with Ancient Greek κτείς (kteís).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpek.ten/, [ˈpɛkt̪ɛn]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpek.ten/, [ˈpɛkt̪en]

### Noun

pecten m (genitive pectinis); third declension
* comb
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.405–406:Naidēs effusīs aliae sine pectinis ūsū, pars aderant positīs arte manūque cōmisThe Naiad nymphs were there, some with locks dishevelled without the application of the comb, others with their hair arranged both with taste and labour. 1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Trans. & notes by H. T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 27.
* pubic hair
* hair
* scallop

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* pectinō
* *pectinīculum

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: cheaptini, chiaptini
** Megleno-Romanian: chiaptini
** Romanian: pieptene, pieptăn
* Dalmatian:
** piacno
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: pèttine
** Italian: pettine
** Neapolitan: pèttene, pèttine
** Sicilian: pèttini
    Calabria: pèttinu
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: petene, petini, petiri
* North Italian:
** Gallo-Italic:
*** Emilian: pèten, pätne
*** Ligurian: péteno
*** Lombard: péten, pécen
*** Piedmontese: pento, pecio, peci, pécen
*** Romagnol: pètan, pètne
** Rhaeto-Romance:
*** Friulian: pietin
*** Ladin: péten
*** Romansch: petgen, pettan
** Venetan: petene, peten
* Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: pé(g)no
** French: peigne
* Occitano-Romance:
** Catalan: pinte, ⇒ pinta
** Gascon: piente, pentie, piento, pinti, pende, pentge, pinto, pienti, piendi
** Occitan: penche (all dialects)
    Limousin: pinte, pinti
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: piente, peine, pine
** Old Leonese: [Term?]
*** Asturian: peñe, peine, peiñe, pene
*** Leonese: pende, peñe, peine
*** Mirandese: peine
** Old Galician-Portuguese: *peitẽe
*** Galician: empeña, peite, pente, pieite
*** Portuguese: pente
** Old Spanish: peyne
*** Spanish: empeine, peine
* Borrowings:
** → English: pecten

### References

* “pecten”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “pecten”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* pecten in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* pecten in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “pecten”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “pecten”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin